Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation : Dividing Knox County, and Erecting Clark County
Proclamation: Dividing Knox County, and Erecting
Clark County
February 3, 1801
Executive Journal, 2
The governor [Harrison] Issued a proclamation dividing the county of Knox and erecting a separate county to be stiled the county of Clark the boundaries of which are as follows: beginning at the Ohio river at the mouth of Blew river, thence up the said river to the crossing of the same by the Road [Buffalo Trace] leading from Saint Vincennes to Clarksville, thence by a direct line to the nearest part of White River [Driftwood, or East Fork], thence up the said river and that branch [Blue River] thereof which runs toward Fort Recovery, and from the head springs of said branch to Fort Recovery, thence along the boundary line between the Indiana, and Northwestern Territory, to the Ohio, thence down the same river to the place of beginning at the same time directing the first session of said courts to be held at Springville in said county.